📷 Arthur Saron Sarnoff, Fashionable Women, no date. Acrylic on board. tmblr.co/ZkLwwvbwOZF0me…

📷 Jukebox Wurlitzer 850 „Peacock“, 1941. Wurlitzer 1015 „Bubbler“, 1946. Wurlitzer 2000 „Centennial“, 1956. On auction Dorotheum. tmblr.co/ZkLwwvbyNm88ia…

📷 Properzia de’ Rossi, Enameled gold pendant in the form of a laurel wreath, 1520 - 1530. Pearl, gold, cherry stone, diamond, enamel, at the center is a cherry pit carved with minute heads. 40 x 20 mm, Palazzo Pitti, Via Uffizi The 16th... tmblr.co/ZkLwwvbzbuTACy…

📷 Cologne Cathedral. Construction began in 1248, was halted around 1560,  restarted in 1814 and was cmnpleted to its original medieval plan in 1880. The builders in the 14th century created a pastel light effect that remained unique among... tmblr.co/ZkLwwvc17iAyeW…

📷 Lucien Falize, Bracelet, around 1880. Pearls, enamel, gold. Paris. Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, Photo Günther Meyer tmblr.co/ZkLwwvcDQzDaOi…

Jan van Huysum, A Crab, 18th century. Aert Schouman, Long-tailed Widowbird / Roseate Spoonbill 1760–1780. Exhibition Passion for Pictures staedelmuseum... tmblr.co/ZkLwwvcDR1GPya…

📷 Kaigara Danmen Zuan, “Inside wonders” pattern book, 1913. Published in Kyoto by Unsōdō, Japan. Via Cooper Hewitt / fulltable.com Yoichirō Hirase, a mollusk scientist, collected over 3500 seashells, 1000 of which were new discoveries.... tmblr.co/ZkLwwvcEnI-QWy…

📷 Sacha Wiederhold 1/ Jazz Symphony, 1927, Silard Isaak Collection 2/ Sailboats in the harbor, 1929, oil, tempera and gold bronze on paper, laminated on canvas, Silard Isaak Collection 3/ Archers, 1928, oil on cardboard on canvas,... tmblr.co/ZkLwwvcHD3gYyy…

📷 Cohr, silver coffee set, 1950s. Denmark. Julia Heiss, Silberkontor tmblr.co/ZkLwwvcK53GS4W…

📷 Morris Hirshfield (1872–1946) 1/ Angora Cat, 1937, oil on canvas. MoMA 2/ Lion, 1939. MoMA  3/ Mother Cat with kittens, 1941. © Robert and Gail Rentzer for Estate of Morris Hirshfield  4/ Leopard Family, 1943. Private Collection.  5/... tmblr.co/ZkLwwvcLRxe38a…

📷 ED Group for Tessuti Mompiano, 1972. Maxima Series – hand printed, by Franco Grignani (+ design drawings). “It is the first time in Italy that a homogeneous group of architects and designers, preliminarily coordinated, operates in the... tmblr.co/ZkLwwvcV16u8Wy…

📷 Antonio Salviati, Vase, ‘Facon de Venise’, 1888. Blown glass (pagliesco). 2/ goblet, 1889. Murano, Venice, Italy. Via Maas Museum In 1859 Dr Antonio Salviati set up a Murano company to revive traditional Venetian glass. In 1877 the... tmblr.co/ZkLwwvcbeBtTqu…

📷 Patchwork Fragment, Tumbling Blocks; 1870–1890. Silk. Via Cooper Hewitt Also known as cubework, the optical results of floating, stacked and overall cubic arrangements are achieved through the distribution of color and light and dark... tmblr.co/ZkLwwvcdnxRnCa…

After the smart double star offer and people pondering about a return to #tumblr I am glad that I kept my account design-is-fine.org running for years. It is just the time for a revival, tumblr rules 📏

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📷 Identipops: Build your favorite Popstar, 1969. Via Dangerous Minds Identipops was a children’s game. The goal was to build their favorite pop star or create an entirely new one Frankenstein-style. According to the box, there were over 74... tmblr.co/ZkLwwvcw8bg4mi…

📷 Reinhold Weiss passed away on December 6, 2022, from complications of Covid-19. RIP. I love his design classics for Braun and his coffee grinder is working in my household since 50 years. Pics via MoMa tmblr.co/ZkLwwvd59z1sCm…

Entering the Webydo. competition with bauhaus-bookshelf.org

He was a true op-art graphic designer

Tumblr terminated my blog after 10 years, 17.000 posts and 180.000 followers because of a copyright "strike" without warning, despite being a non-profit, educational, fair use project. Wow. After the initial shock I am starting over. Visit design-is-fine.org